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Building an Educational Game with .NET Core and Unity Johnny Hooyberghs Building an educational game with .NET Core and Unity Johnny Hooyberghs @djohnnieke 1 [email protected] Who am I • Johnny Hooyberghs • @djohnnieke • github.com/Djohnnie www.involved-it.be 2 What and Why 3 Why did I make this game? • Gamification to teach basic C# knowledge in school • Learn the Unity Game Engine • Play with the Microsoft Compiler Platform (Roslyn) • Play with .NET Core 3 • Play with Azure DevOps Pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes • Use Test Driven Development 4 What is CSharpWars? • Robots on arena (15x15) • Robots take turns (every two seconds, simultaniously) • Robots can move around the grid • Robots can attack other robots • Robots can see part of the arena • A turn is scripted using C# and all scripts will run every two seconds • A robot has a limited amount of health and stamina 5 Let’s play! • Register as a player • Select a pre-defined script • Create your robot • Watch him struggle! https://api.djohnnie.be:8802/ 6 Architecture 7 What about the architecture? • The Unity game engine for the arena frontend • I wanted a full 3D experience • I don’t need a full game experience, just a visualization of the battle • I can fetch the game state every two seconds from an HTTP backend • I can learn Unity! 8 What about the architecture? • ASP.NET Core for the backend • An ASP.NET Core WebApi HTTP API for Unity requests • An ASP.NET Core MVC for the demo website • An ASP.NET Core gRPC service for the validation service • I can learn gRPC! 9 What about the architecture? • .NET Core Worker Service for the processing middleware • Worker service template for Windows Services, Linux Daemons or docker containers • The Microsoft Compiler platform for C# compilation and execution at run-time • I can learn Roslyn! 10 HTTP API Frontend Database Processor WebApp Validator 11 Let’s see some code! 12 What did I learn? 13 Unity! 14 15 16 17 18 What did I learn in Unity? • Unity = C# • I can use my current knowledge • I can use external assemblies and libraries (NuGet, …) but no direct support for NuGet • Unity uses the Mono runtime, so no .NET Core • Unity also provides the option to compile to native using IL2CPP 19 What did I learn in Unity? • Modular workflow based on GameObjects • I had to get used to the workflow, but I am getting used to it • Lot’s of flexibility makes it easy and hard at the same time • Unity has a wide range of support for 3d models (meshes), even Sketchup • There is community support for dependency injection (ADIC, Extenject, …) 20 What did I learn in Unity? • Platform independent • Support for a number of platforms thanks to the Mono runtime • Support for even more platforms thanks to IL2CPP 21 What did I learn in .NET Core? • Using .NET Core with Docker containers is extremely easy • .NET Core is more performant than .NET Framework 22 What did I learn in gRPC? • For service to service communication, it is perfect and easy to use with support for async streams • Better performance thanks to smaller payload size (binary) • Only experimental support for Unity 23 What did I learn in Roslyn? • Using the Microsoft Compiler Platform is easier than expected • Keeping memory usage low is a bit of a search • Infinite loops are not easy to detect • Running scripts cannot be cancelled • Use the validator service to check the scripts without damaging the processing middleware • Hosting the validator and middleware processor inside a docker container makes it easy to quickly restart 24 Thank You [email protected] @djohnnieke https://github.com/Djohnnie/CSharpWars.
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